Ever since 1920, the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives has published a booklet after each congressional election, listing the election returns for each candidate for Congress in the general election. Starting in 1930, the booklet also has a … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Third Way, a think tank in Washington, D.C., recently released voter registration data for all the states in which voters are asked on voter registration forms to choose a political party (or independent status). However, Third Way’s report only includes … Continue reading
Even though New York state no longer uses mechanical voting machines, election authorities in that state continue to design ballots as though mechanical voting machines still exist. Here is the New York November 2014 ballot for counties outside New York … Continue reading
On October 10, U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Piersol issued his written opinion in South Dakota Libertarian Party v Gant, 14-cv-4132. This is the case over whether the state should have put the Libertarian Party’s nominee for Public Service Commissioner … Continue reading
The Leavenworth (Kansas) Times has this interesting column by political scientist Ernest Evans, on the useful role minor parties have played in U.S. history. … Continue reading